Why Philosophy Here and Now? Critical and Transformative Challenges to a Conservative Discipline—Decolonial, Feminist, and Critical Race Perspectives. Academic philosophy has been the home of the allegedly generic rational European man, with epistemology at the center of that home. Join in a conversation with two epistemologists who are commit...
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Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Dotson, Kristie; Scheman, Naomi
Created:
2016-04-14
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Detrimental Reliance and the Ethics of Sustainability . Ethicist Randall Curren starts his talk by saying, I think sustainability is the defining challenge of our time. He describes the problem of the current over-exploitation of natural resources and presents an argument for how sustainability is an ethical issue that we must address. He frames...
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Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Curren, Randall
Created:
2010-04-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Detrimental Reliance and the Ethics of Sustainability . Ethicist Randall Curren starts his talk by saying, I think sustainability is the defining challenge of our time. He describes the problem of the current over-exploitation of natural resources and presents an argument for how sustainability is an ethical issue that we must address. He frames...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Curren, Randall
Created:
2010-04-01
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Rhetoric and Modernity: The Curse of the Hybrid. The Colloquium on Modern Rhetoric will focus on modern rhetorical theory. In the 19th century, the university had not yet fragmented into contemporary disciplinary structures. By 1900, literary studies, psychology and philosophy had differentiated. By 1920, speech-communication coalesced as its ow...
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Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Keith, William; Wallace, Daisy
Created:
2009-10-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Q&A with James Aune and William Keith. The Colloquium on Modern Rhetoric will focus on modern rhetorical theory. In the 19th century, the university had not yet fragmented into contemporary disciplinary structures. By 1900, literary studies, psychology and philosophy had differentiated. By 1920, speech-communication coalesced as its own intellec...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Aune, James; Keith, William
Created:
2009-10-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Six Theses on Rhetoric, Modernity, and Modernism. The Colloquium on Modern Rhetoric will focus on modern rhetorical theory. In the 19th century, the university had not yet fragmented into contemporary disciplinary structures. By 1900, literary studies, psychology and philosophy had differentiated. By 1920, speech-communication coalesced as its o...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Aune, James; Pratt, James
Created:
2009-10-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Response to Debra Hawhee, Richard Graff, and John Logie. The Colloquium on Modern Rhetoric will focus on modern rhetorical theory. In the 19th century, the university had not yet fragmented into contemporary disciplinary structures. By 1900, literary studies, psychology and philosophy had differentiated. By 1920, speech-communication coalesced a...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Behme, Tim; Schoborg, Beth
Created:
2009-10-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Realism, Wishful Thinking, and Utopia. We are all familiar with the phenomenon of wishful thinking, that is with cases in which people believe something not because they have any adequate reason for believing it, but because they wish it were the case. One powerful source of so-called 'realism' in thinking about politics is the desire to avoid s...
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Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Geuss, Raymond
Created:
2010-05-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Realism, Wishful Thinking, and Utopia. We are all familiar with the phenomenon of wishful thinking, that is with cases in which people believe something not because they have any adequate reason for believing it, but because they wish it were the case. One powerful source of so-called 'realism' in thinking about politics is the desire to avoid s...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Geuss, Raymond
Created:
2010-05-06
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Embodiment and the Sense of the Self: Views from Meditation and Cognitive Neuroscience. Studies show that our brains only require 1% of their total energy to respond to environmental stimuli. In this presentation, philosopher Evan Thompson discusses the resting state of the brain, in which energy is used for what is known as spontaneous brain ac...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Thompson, Evan
Created:
2009-10-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Embodiment and the Sense of the Self: Views from Meditation and Cognitive Neuroscience. Studies show that our brains only require 1% of their total energy to respond to environmental stimuli. In this presentation, philosopher Evan Thompson discusses the resting state of the brain, in which energy is used for what is known as spontaneous brain ac...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Thompson, Evan
Created:
2009-10-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Introduction for William Hendeson. The Colloquium on Modern Rhetoric will focus on modern rhetorical theory. In the 19th century, the university had not yet fragmented into contemporary disciplinary structures. By 1900, literary studies, psychology and philosophy had differentiated. By 1920, speech-communication coalesced as its own intellectual...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Read, Cheryl
Created:
2009-10-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Introduction for Joshua Gunn and Michael Pfau. The Colloquium on Modern Rhetoric will focus on modern rhetorical theory. In the 19th century, the university had not yet fragmented into contemporary disciplinary structures. By 1900, literary studies, psychology and philosophy had differentiated. By 1920, speech-communication coalesced as its own ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Beard, David; Davis, Anne; Smith, Susannah
Created:
2009-10-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Introduction for Debra Hawhee & Richard Graff, John Logie, Tim Behme, and Beth Schoborg. The Colloquium on Modern Rhetoric will focus on modern rhetorical theory. In the 19th century, the university had not yet fragmented into contemporary disciplinary structures. By 1900, literary studies, psychology and philosophy had differentiated. By 1920, ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Leone, Eden
Created:
2009-10-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Toxic Archipelago: Industrial Pollution in Japan. The Earth's environment is interlaced with complex, constructed ecological pathways that link industrial facilities and human consumers. Nowhere is this truer than on the Japanese archipelago. During the nineteenth century, Japan saw the rise of Homo sapiens industrialis, a new breed of human who...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Walker, Brett
Created:
2010-09-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Toxic Archipelago: Industrial Pollution in Japan. The Earth's environment is interlaced with complex, constructed ecological pathways that link industrial facilities and human consumers. Nowhere is this truer than on the Japanese archipelago. During the nineteenth century, Japan saw the rise of Homo sapiens industrialis, a new breed of human who...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Walker, Brett
Created:
2010-09-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
How Are Moral Conversions Possible?. In this talk, Professor Wong examines three cases of apparent moral conversion: first, a fictional drab functionary of the East German regime, featured in the recent film The Lives of Others, who ends up trying to save the people he is assigned to spy upon; second, the actual case of Oscar Schindler having sa...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Wong, David
Created:
2010-10-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
How Are Moral Conversions Possible?. In this talk, Professor Wong examines three cases of apparent moral conversion: first, a fictional drab functionary of the East German regime, featured in the recent film The Lives of Others, who ends up trying to save the people he is assigned to spy upon; second, the actual case of Oscar Schindler having sa...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Wong, David
Created:
2010-10-07
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ethics and Climate Change: An Earth Day Presentation. With the effective end of the debate in the U.S. over the basic science of climate change, and the dramatic shift in our political response to this issue, we are now witnessing an impressively aggressive push to establish a national price structure on carbon and move toward negotiation of a s...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Light, Andrew
Created:
2009-04-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Ethics and Climate Change: An Earth Day Presentation. With the effective end of the debate in the U.S. over the basic science of climate change, and the dramatic shift in our political response to this issue, we are now witnessing an impressively aggressive push to establish a national price structure on carbon and move toward negotiation of a s...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Light, Andrew
Created:
2009-04-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
